HC Deb 04 December 1979 vol 975 c170W
Mr. Best

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will ask the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council to consider whether vibration white finger should be prescribed as an industrial disease.

Mr. Prentice

My right hon. Friend has today asked the councilto consider whether, having regard to those sections of the Council's 1975 report on Vibration Syndrome relating to Vibration White Finger and to the new evidence on that condition which has since come forward, Vibration White Finger should be prescribed as an industrial disease under the provisions of the Social Security Act 1975; and to report".